...This chapter shows how, despite their apparently very different approaches, Merleau-Ponty and Simondon both helped forge the terms of an encounter with science against the backdrop of a philosophical commitment to ontology. Merleau-Ponty's later thought, which aims to overcome the Cartesian dualism...

...In Beckett’s late prose, closed space is a precondition for creation, as it enables a self-reflexivity that Merleau-Ponty associates with sentience. Chapter Seven begins with a discussion of Merleau-Ponty’s late ontology of the flesh, then turns to Beckett’s Worstward Ho, which...

... of these concerns, what resources are there in the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricœur and Jean-Luc Nancy for thinking ontology ‘otherwise’? The starting hypothesis of the book is that, even after deconstruction, the phenomenological idea that meaning inheres (somehow) in the world is worth another look...

... of things around us that matters, not the visual sensations and so forth which they produce. Merleau-Ponty develops Heidegger’s account by viewing our existence in the world as primarily ‘pre-objective’, that is, as that of embodied agents manipulating things unreflectively, rather than that of subjects set...

...It seems that with the most recent neurobiological discoveries concerning bodily motility, we are witnessing the emergence of a new meaning of the word ‘meaning’. To what extent is this new new meaning indebted to Merleau-Ponty? To what extent is it not? At first sight, as it is practically always...

... embodiment Garréta Anne F Sphinx interpretation Levi Primo Merleau Ponty Maurice phenomenology postmodernism rhetoric absence deconstruction discourse Lee Crispin T Plato De Man Paul difference Gasché Rodolphe Homer Derrida Jacques lightness totality Warminski Andrezj syntax narrative...

...This chapter stages the first encounter between Merleau-Ponty and Nancy. While both situate the locus of sense-making in the body, for Merleau-Ponty there is a priority of unity over dislocation in sensing and self-sensing, which is also a priority of interiority over exteriority and of the moment...

... of the thing, and not of a perspective as a sign of the thing. Objective thought is unable to account for this paradox because it operates with the opposition between being and appearance and forgets the order of the phenomena. While Merleau-Ponty’s notion of an in-itself-for-us invites the accusation...

...Chapter 7 takes up the question of the influence of Heidegger’s thinking on Nancy and on the late Merleau-Ponty. Merleau-Ponty’s own understanding of Being appropriates Heidegger’s notion of Wesenbut understands this Wesenalso as depth and as the Ineinander...

...In this final chapter, the author stages the last encounter between Nancy and Merleau-Ponty, focusing on Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of the flesh as chiasm. The question at the heart of this chapter concerns the extent to which the flesh can be interpreted as a differential principle. In order...

...The chapter discusses the role and significance of concepts such as home, dwelling, language and the question of embodied Being in relation to John Burnside’s writing. Developed through the thinking of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty specifically, and phenomenological thinking more...

...This chapter explores Solaris’s chiasmatic interpenetration of the real and the phantasmatic in the context of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the flesh defined as the non-physical substrate of the visible world and the virtual. Thanks to its genre of science fiction, Efird...

..., misunderstandings of which have led to discrimination against its wearers in France and elsewhere. The distinction between the body-for-self and the body-for-others, developed in the work of Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, is used to explore the cultural meanings of dress and behaviour. These are shown to depend upon...

... Luce Irigaray, Henri Bergson, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Badiou Alain Deleuze Gilles dynamical systems theory phenomenology space time manifold of causal duration logic micro scale s Newton Isaac ontology sensible sensibility ies space discrete affect s Bergson Henri concept s fourth...

...This chapter is focused on Merleau-Ponty’s undermining of Cartesian dualism in his study of lived body and his attempt at tying reflection back to the unreflected life of the body. To get acquainted with the lived body, the author focuses on the description of the experience of sensing and self...

...Chapter 5 focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s engagement with Sartre’s essay ‘Man and Things’ and their respective readings of Francis Ponge’s Le parti pris des choses. In his engagement with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty speaks of things in strong anthropomorphic terms, yet the author shows...

... Merleau-Ponty’s use of the phenomenological approach that facilitates authentic connections with the world. In other words, becoming enworlded as conscious and reflexive agents requires recognition and acceptance of ambiguous experience. This philosophy is clearly personified in Dunye’s creative practice...

...Chapter One compares both thinkers’ ambivalent engagement with Descartes: Beckett’s parody of Cartesian rationalism in Murphy and Merleau-Ponty’s revision of the cogito as he develops the ‘body-subject’. Both Merleau-Ponty and Beckett replace a transcendental...

...This chapter first analyses Meillassoux’s critique, in After Finitude, of subject-object correlation and phenomenology. It then traces connections between passivity, radical reflection, and indirect ontology in Merleau-Ponty, to show how Meillassoux, contra Merleau-Ponty, takes...

...The second chapter turns to Merleau-Ponty to see how, working through a number of issues with Sartre, phenomenology, and modern thought more generally, he deepens Sartre’s engagement with immanence and elaboration of the subject-body and perceptual consciousness as the condition of meaning...